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NYC is a vegan foodie's paradise!
This month, my sugar booger and I ventured off to NYC for our anniversary and not only did we have a delightfully romantic stay but we also had some of the tastiest vegan food on the planet!
Here's a quick recap:
Place we most frequented (besides Whole Foods for snacky treats): Cafe Blossom
Why were we so horny about this place? Three words – soy bacon cheeseburger! (and we ordered it every time we went)
I honestly hadn't had a bacon cheeseburger (soy or otherwise) in over 10 years so this was definitely a glorious occasion. Cafe Blossom doesn't mess around with this sandwich either. It has a grilled soy burger topped with caramelized onions, vegan soy cheese, vegan soy bacon, lettuce and chipotle aioli. We ordered Cajun sweet potato fries as our side which were spicy and sweet and muy muy delicioso! This photo doesn't do this sandwich justice but my taste buds can vouch for me.
We also ordered their Seitan Skewers (seeing my hubs and I are both devoted Seitan worshipers) which were mouth-wateringly divine. They were flame grilled seitan chunks in a barbecue sauce that came with jicama slaw. I highly recommend ordering the Seitan Skewers and the Soy Bacon Cheeseburger on your next trip to Cafe Blossom and prepare yourself to freak out 'cause this food is crazy good!
Best Breakfast (which happened to be served until the late afternoon): Green Bean Cafe
I don't know why but I had a hankering for PM breakfast almost every day we were in NYC. Not only did Green Bean Cafe serve breakfast in the PM but their breakfast was off the hook (and very affordable)!
We went there for breakfast twice and ordered the same thing both times 'cause it was that tasty. We ordered their Tofu Scramble (with tempeh bacon, tomatoes and soy cheese), seasoned breakfast potatoes and toast. Every detail of this dish was like my fantasy breakfast come true. I'm dying to know what they season their breakfast potatoes with. My hubby and I ordered a whole extra plate of just seasoned potatoes. Green Bean Cafe not only satisfied my craving but it made me giddy. I'm sad tho' that there isn't a Green Bean Cafe in Los Angeles. 🙁 I would probably eat there every day.
Second favorite breakfast spot (that happened to serve breakfast anytime): Curly's
Curly's is a vegetarian restaurant with vegan options and they get mad bonus points for serving breakfast all day long. This place was also very reasonably priced and served up huge portions. We ordered their Scrambled Tofu (we added spinach, portobello mushrooms and vegan cheese) which also came with toast and curly fries. I'd never had curly fries with breakfast before so this was fun. As tasty as it was it was a little on the greasy side. I'm a huge fan of fried food but looking back I wish I had ordered this with a salad or a side of fruit.
Favorite fancy pants fine dining experience: Candle 79
I highly advise making a reservation when going to Candle 79. We didn't make one and the wait was 45 mins. so we opted to eat at the bar. I actually enjoyed sitting at the bar because the bartender was makin' all these crazy, unique fancy beverages and it was fun to watch him at play. We asked him what his favorite non-alcoholic beverage was and he suggested we try their homemade ginger ale. I have to say this is my all time favorite and tastiest beverage I have ever had in my entire life. No joke. It tasted like an agave ginger mint mojito (sans the alcohol). It was heavenly. I have fantasies about this drink! I want to swim, bathe and live in it!
We couldn't decide on an entree so wound up ordering one of their evening specials which was a Risotto with Crusted Seitan. As I has assumed, everything from this restaurant was delectably arousing. Also, this restaurant has a sophisticated yet modern ambiance and the staff is exceptionally helpful and friendly. This is a perfect place to take a date!
If you do not order the Chocolate Peanut Butter Bliss for dessert, you are going to miss out on one of the most sinful tasting desserts of your life. My only complaint is that it was tiny. I was pretty stuffed before dessert so it was actually a good thing (and it was very decadent too). It was like the lovechild of the most delicious truffle I'd ever eaten and a scrumptious peanut butter cup. I savored this dessert because every bite was like taking a journey to Nirvana. I know that's corny, but once you try it, you'll understand.
Favorite Asian Cuisine: Zen Palate
So I have some exciting news for my fellow Los Angelinos! Zen Palate now has an Los Angeles area location in Pasadena! Who-hoo! I know I'm super duper stoked. So, if you're in NYC or the LA area and you get a chance to make it out to Zen Palate you have to try their Sizzling Medallions entree. It's crispy wheat gluten filets al'orange with fresh asparagus, mushrooms, string beans red onions and it comes to your table on a sizzling platter. In fact, all of that sizzling action fogged up my camera hence my steamy lookin' pic. This is my all time favorite sweet & sour dish ev-ah! Zen Palate really masters the art of seitan. I was thoroughly impressed with this dish and it's perfection of flavors and presentation. It will be hard for me to ever order anything but this dish at Zen Palate.
I have so many restaurants and pics I'd like to share but I figured I'd just narrow it down to my favorites. If I've overlooked some amazing vegan NYC restaurants (which I'm sure I have) please e-mail me or comment with suggestions 'cause I'm sure I'll be back and I'd love to try out your favorite spots too!
About Sunny (Sunny's Profile)Longtime vegan, hardcore compassionate beauty junkie, serious cake aficionado, and lover of all things floofy and sparkly! If there's something in particular you'd like me to review, drop me a line at email@example.com. You can also find me on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Google +.
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- vegan bacon burger and more at cafe blossom in nyc | quarrygirl.com | February 12, 2010
Cafe Blossom is my husband and my favorite NY vegan restaurant. We ate there MANY times during our NY trips. So many, that we became great friends with everyone there. 😉
AMEN ON LULAS SWEET APOTHECARY. best ice cream ever. the cake batter soft serve is purely orgasmic. when i was staying in the upper west side we seriously traveled down to the village everyday for ice cream. and we DID NOT only get one cone.
counter has THE BEST BREAKFAST! the bread basket is simply, WOW. mmm. but dont get there cauliflower risotto for dinner, waste of money, i read on blogs it was great but it just looks nice, it was just cauliflower w some vegan butter. eh. no thanks.
and PLEASE go to FOODSWINGS in BROOKLYN. just take the subway and eat the BEST, and i mean literally THE BEST, vegan junk food of your life. the milkshake, the SPICY BUFFALO WINGS, the FRIES IN CHEESE SAUCE. omg. ahh, mmm!
The only problem is… that all of that soy is terrible for you!
Veganism is great! I just wish people realized that Veganism is also about eating properly for your body so that it can function correctly.
Red Bamboo!
Start your list for your next visit: Blossom (Cafe Blossom's Chelsea sister), Red Bamboo, and Lula's Sweet Apothecary!
i <3 curleys
Candle 79 is one of my favorites in NYC (Counter and teany are the others)! I really like Zen Palate, but I haven't been to the others. Whenever I head to NYC, I go armed with a list of all the restaurants I want to hit and new ones pop up all the time!
I'm so glad you had an amazing anniversary trip. 🙂
Those curly fries look tasty right now!


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Ortelius is smart about shared styles. When you draw several objects using the same style, they share the properties of that style. If you edit a shared style, the changes are applied across all instances of the style – in other words you will see the changes on all objects where the style has been used. In this way, changes to styles across multiple objects can be made very quickly and efficiently.
To Use Cascading "Shared" Styles:
- By default, all styles in Ortelius are 'sharable'.
HINT: Styles in the built-in Mapdiva collection cannot be over-written – to edit styles in the built-in collection, use "Clone" to make a copy of the original. Editing a shared library style can have unforeseen consequences, including if the style is in use in other documents.
To Break the Style Link Between Successive Objects Using "Reset" and "Clone":
Do one of the following:
With the object selected, click "Reset" in the Format Bar or Style Inspector to reset the style to the defualt (black stroke and grey fill) and create a new style.
With the object selected, click "Clone" in the Format Bar or Style Inspector to create a new style based on a copy of the one currently in use. Use clone, for example, when you want to change the stroke width but keep all other settings the same.
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A new survey of women who work in the alternative investments sector finds that a majority expects the next 18 months to be challenging for the industry, but are more optimistic about the investment outlook and new fund launches within that period.
"Women in Alternative Investments—Industry Outlook and Trends," released Tuesday by Rothstein Kass, a professional services provider, and 85 Broads, the global women's network, is based on a third quarter survey of 189 executive-level women who invest capital through hedge funds, private equity funds or venture capital funds.
"Over the past decade, there has been a significant increase in the number of successful women in the alternative investment community," Kelly Easterling, a principal in the financial services practice at Rothstein Kass, said in a statement. "These women are having a major impact on the direction of the industry."
Most survey respondents believe it is harder for funds managed by women to attract capital. Slightly more than 40% ascribe this to the fact that women often lack the investment track record their male peers have.
About a third of respondents believe that women's capital-raising efforts are hindered by the stereotype that women are more committed to family and personal responsibilities than to their career. And slightly over 30% believe it is harder for women to raise capital because they have less access to investor networks.
Other notable findings include:
- Nearly 70% of the women surveyed expect the next 18 months to be more difficult than the preceding period. Still, some 60% anticipate an increase in new fund launches over the same period.
- More than half of the women surveyed are planning to introduce a new fund in the next 18 months.
- More than 70% of respondents plan to raise capital in the next 18 months.
- Respondents see family offices (52%), pension funds (52%), high-net-worth individuals (50%), foundations (41%) and endowments (35%) as the most likely sources of new capital. The also view sovereign wealth funds (25%) and "other foreign sources of capital" (18%) as significant sources of money.
- In an uncertain economic climate, over 65% of participants are confident that attractive investment opportunities will emerge in the next 18 months.
- A majority of respondents expect terms for new capital to be less favorable to fund managers in the next 18 months.
- To facilitate women's advancement in the industry, survey participants noted that women need greater access to roles that enable them to establish an investment track record, more women need to be recruited into the industry and institutional investors should consider women's representation in investment roles when making allocations.
The report also identifies several factors critical to respondents' success in the industry. The most important ones:
- Having a strong professional network;
- Having strong mentoring relationships;
- Willingness to take risks;
- Strategic career planning;
- Strong support networks.
"In recent years, we've seen greater numbers of senior-level women strategically investing significant capital in start-up companies and funds led by women," Janet Hanson, founder and chief executive of 85 Broads, said in the statement. Senior women are making these investments, in ventures often led by young women, not out of an obligation to give back or for charitable purposes, but because they are investing in real talent."


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Big Bear Alpine Zoo – "Saving wildlife since 1959"
The Big Bear Alpine Zoo is a rehabilitation facility offering injured, orphaned and imprinted wild animals a safe haven; temporarily while they heal or permanently as they are unable to survive on their own. We are extremely proud that 90% of all the animals brought to us for rehabilitation are successfully released back into their native environment. Those that remain with us on exhibit are either too injured or have been imprinted by humans and cannot be released back into the wild to care for themselves.
The Big Bear Valley Recreation and Park District, a Special District of the County of San Bernardino, owns the zoo, the facilities and the animals. County employees are hired for animal care, grounds keepers, maintenance, education and administration. The zoo is located within the 3rd District of the County of San Bernardino. The Park District oversees the operation of the zoo, and the Curator oversees the day to day activities of the zoo. The zoo is located in the San Bernardino National Forest at an elevation of 7140 feet.
Since March 2015, Bob Cisneros has served as the Zoo's Curator. Prior to coming to Big Bear Alpine Zoo, Bob worked at the San Diego Zoo for 21 years.
The Friends of the Big Bear Alpine Zoo (FOBBAZ) was created in 1989, as a 501(C3), nonprofit, fundraising organization to support the zoo. The Friends provide volunteer work in the zoo and their volunteer activities cover a wide range of duties including operating the gift shop and the Grazing Corral, providing docent tours, preparing meals, helping with animal presentations and occasionally assisting in light maintenance activities. Today, FOBBAZ is charged with raising several million dollars that is needed to relocate and build the zoo at the proposed new site.
Facts: The Big Bear Alpine Zoo (formally Moonridge Animal Park) opened its doors in 1959 after a devastating wildfire roared through the San Bernardino National Forest. Originally, it was not a zoo, but a safe place for injured animals to rehabilitate and get a second chance back in the wild. For some, returning to the wild was not an option as they had been imprinted by their human caretakers or were too injured to take care of themselves. The first animals in the zoo's care were a black bear and two bobcats.
In 1960, a 50 year lease was obtained and allowed the zoo to grow to be the zoological facility that is today. The zoo is currently home to animals and birds representing over 85 species and is located in San Bernardino County, the largest County in the contiguous United States. Our primary objective is to rescue, rehabilitate and release wild animals. The Big Bear Alpine Zoo is the "go to" facility for injured and imprinted animals. Local, county, state and federal entities as well as other non-profit organizations and the public turn to the Big Bear Alpine Zoo to help animals in need.


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Sheriff airs tonight on Documentary Channel at 8 p.m. Eastern, as a part of a celebration of Daniel Kraus' Work Series, concluding with a new film in the series. Here's Noel Murray's review of the film's theatrical release from 2005.
Daniel Kraus' documentary Sheriff has been described as "Cops as directed by Frederick Wiseman," because like Wiseman, Kraus eschews talking-head interviews, narration, descriptive titles, and music. But where Wiseman holds his camera on moments until viewers catch the full sensation of marvelous, mundane reality, Kraus edits with wild abandon. Sheriff follows small-town North Carolina lawman Ronald E. Hewett as he keeps the peace in a modern-day Mayberry, and Kraus isn't shy about leading viewers to conclusions about the job, the man, and even the region—all definite no-nos in Wiseman's aesthetic philosophy.
But without taking anything away from Wiseman, who remains a master, Sheriff is almost as good any documentary he's made. Yes, Kraus goes for a cheap laugh when he sticks in a shot of Brunswick County's "Worms & Coffee" shop, and there may be better ways to illustrate the drudgery of police work than showing cops struggling to work a wrinkly dollar bill through a Coke machine. Still, Kraus has found a winning character in Hewett, whose demeanor and fashion sense falls halfway between Ricky Gervais in The Office and Thomas Lennon in Reno 911 (right down to the tiny mustache). The difference is that Hewett has poise and dignity. He can tell someone to meet him at the "McDonalds and Texaco" intersection without making it sound rinky-dink. He speaks in the same even, lilting tones whether he's talking about his faith in God, or describing a multiple homicide. In one of Sheriff's funniest and most pointed scenes, Kraus cuts together a series of Hewett's interviews with the local news, illustrating how often he uses the word "individuals" and the phrase "at this time," as though a flurry of law-enforcement euphemisms could suck the blood out of violent crime.
Structurally, Sheriff actually isn't too different from an episode of Cops. Over a brisk hour and 15 minutes, Kraus details the modern lawman's range of activities, as Hewett speaks at a high-school assembly one day and busts up a video-poker joint the next. But without being too obtrusive, Kraus develops Hewett as a character: a devout Baptist in a conservative Christian community where a lot of the streets bear his family name. Hewett relishes the responsibility of his position, making moral pronouncements when he tells his constituents that the new strip club opening up nearby will be a problem, while the local nudist camp is nothing to worry about. He can be a camera hog, and he can be pushy. He's the model of well-meaning provincial arrogance, telling everyone what to do because he's sure, by God, that he's right.


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By David Smith
Elephant deaths in Tanzania have risen dramatically since the government abandoned a shoot-to-kill policy against poachers, officials admit.
Lazaro Nyalandu, the deputy minister of natural resources and tourism, said 60 elephants were "butchered" in November and December, compared with two in October.
Soldiers, police, game rangers and forestry officers had been involved in a month-long crackdown on poachers, codenamed Operation Terminate, in October. But the operation was suspended after an inquiry by MPs uncovered a litany of arbitrary murder, rape, torture and extortion of innocent people.
Mizengo Pinda, the prime minister, told Reuters: "The anti-poaching operation had good intentions, but the reported murders, rapes and brutality are totally unacceptable."
The inquiry's findings – including the killing of 13 civilians and arrest of more than 1,000 people – led to the sacking of the tourism minister Khamis Kagasheki, who had called for perpetrators of the illicit ivory trade to be executed "on the spot",as well as the defence minister Shamsi Vuai Nahodha, the home affairs minister Emmanuel Nchimbi and the livestock development minister David Mathayo.
Nyalandu said that, with the operation on hold, the government would appeal to foreign donors to help Tanzania's wildlife department and ranger service. "Those to be approached include the European Union and Asian countries," he was quoted as saying in media reports. "Asian countries are reportedly the main consumers of elephant tusks and byproducts."
There is huge demand for elephant tusks in many Asian countries, where they are used to make ornaments. In August 2011, Tanzanian authorities seized more than 1,000 elephant tusks hidden in sacks of dried fish at Zanzibar port and destined for Malaysia.
Recent research by the International Union for Conservation of Nature found that 22,000 elephants were killed in 2012 and Africa will lose one-fifth of its elephants in the next decade if the poaching crisis is not arrested. There were around 10m African elephants at the start of the 20th century, but that number has fallen to 500,000 owing to poaching and habitat loss. More....


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DetailsIn this fascinating collection of postings from his popular "Musings of an Energy Nerd" blog, Green Building Advisor's Martin Holladay cuts through the hype and myths about energy efficiency, sustainability, and green building to present the very best ways to make your home more energy efficient.
Martin Holladay has been making weekly postings to his "Musings of an Energy Nerd" blog on Green Building Advisor since January 2009. Along the way, he has gathered a devoted following of "energy nerds" who await his weekly musings with rapt anticipation. For the first time, the 50 most popular postings have been assembled in book form to give homeowners a great opportunity to live a more energy-efficient life in their homes. The book begins with an overview of energy priorities, and a discussion of what we mean by terms likegreen and sustainable. Martin presents several options for energy upgrades for an existing house (from replacing windows to adding superinsulation) before looking at ways to improve the energy efficiency of a new house. Separate chapters follow on HVAC, domestic hot water, appliances, and renewable energy, before the book wraps up with an eye-opening chapter on useless products, scams, and myths (including Martin's list of "Stupid Energy-Saving Tips").
About the Author Martin Holladay joined the staff of www.GreenBuildingAdvisor.com in 2008 and writes for Fine Homebuilding magazine about energy-related topics. He has worked as a plumbing wholesale counterperson, roofer, remodeler, builder, writer, and editor. He built his first passive-solar house in northern Vermont in 1974 and has lived off the grid since 1975.
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- 1 Building Science
- What Is Comfort?
- Martin's Pretty Good House Manifesto
- It's Not About Space Heating
- Forget Vapor Diffusion — Stop the Air Leaks!
- Vapor Retarders and Vapor Barriers
- Do I Need a Vapor Retarder?
- Forget Vapor Diffusion — Stop the Air Leaks!
- When Sunshine Drives Moisture Into Walls
- How Risky Is Cold OSB Wall Sheathing?
- Monitoring Moisture Levels in Double-Stud Walls
- 2 Energy Modeling
- Understanding Energy Units
- Saving Energy with Manual J and Manual D
- Energy Modeling Isn't Very Accurate
- How to Perform a Heat-Loss Calculation
- Calculating Cooling Loads
- When Do I Need to Perform a Load Calculation?
- All About Embodied Energy
- Payback Calculations for Energy Efficiency Improvements
- 3 Construction Basics
- Ten Ways to Improve a New Home
- Banish These Details from Your Plans
- Every House Needs Roof Overhangs
- Polyethylene under Concrete Slabs
- Martin's Ten Rules of Roof Design
- Building an Unvented Crawl Space
- How to Build an Insulated Cathedral Ceiling
- How to Design a Wall
- All About Wall Rot
- 4 Airtightness
- Questions and Answers About Air Barriers
- All about Indoor Air Quality
- Blower Door Basics
- Pinpointing Leaks with a Fog Machine
- Getting the Biggest Bang for Your Air-Sealing Buck
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- Understanding R-Value
- Installing Fiberglass Right
- Flash and Batt Insulation
- Calculating the Minimum Thickness of Rigid Foam Sheathing
- How to Install Cellulose Insulation
- How to Install Rigid Foam Sheathing
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- Study Shows That Expensive Windows Yield Meager Energy Returns
- Rating Windows for Condensation Resistance
- Duct Leakage Testing
- Sealing Ducts: What's Better, Tape or Mastic?
- Keeping Ducts Indoors
- Are HRVs Cost-Effective?
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- Does a Home with an HRV Also Need Bath Fans?
- Rules of Thumb for Ductless Minisplits
- 8 The Passivhaus Standard
- Passivhaus For Beginners
- Reassessing Passive Solar Design Principles
- Can Foam Insulation Be Too Thick?
- Are Passivhaus Requirements Logical or Arbitrary?
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I started feeling kind of bad the other day when trying to finish up my Tangled Yoke Cardigan. I got stuck at the point of knitting the buttonband.
I don't know about you, but when I find a pattern I like in a magazine, I tear it out and put it in an overflowing, stuffed-to-the-gills binder full of similar aspirations. Then I toss the rest of the magazine away.
I got to where the pattern called for making the buttonband, using the Glossary to make the button holes. Uh-oh. The Glossary had long ago been pitched along with the rest of that issue. Normal knitters don't feel panicked at the idea of figuring out how to make button holes from any of a slew of reference books sitting right on their shelf. Or they could even ask for help. I know this.
Me, I panicked. I wanted to know exactly what that missing Glossary would have instructed me to do. Evidence to the contrary, I seem to think that the path to eternal bliss is to do Everything Just Right. So I had to make THE buttonholes as called for in the elusive Glossary.
Interweave Knits to the rescue! Did you know they offer CD's containing their magazines? I happened to have the 2007 volume on hand. The Tangled Yoke Cardigan appeared in the Winter issue that year, so I was able to print the missing glossary page. Ahhh. The buttonholes are all done – just the way the instructions call for. Which makes me very happy, and qualifies the CD as one of my Favorite Things.


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Dickey strong, but Herd falls 7-2
For the second time in a week, R.A. Dickey spun his knuckleball with great success at Coca-Cola Field. Dickey allowed just two runs in eight innings but the Yankees exploded late in a 7-2 victory over the Herd on Monday afternoon. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre scored one off the Bisons' starter in the eighth inning and five off the Buffalo bullpen in the ninth to seal the victory.
Coming off a complete game victory in the team's Home Opener, Dickey retired 16 of 17 batters in the middle of another solid outing. The righty kept Yankees' hitters off balance by mixing in his up-tempo knuckler with a fastball on both sides of the plate. It wasn't until the eighth inning the Yanks got the run they needed for victory.
Buffalo first scored in the bottom of the sixth inning. Josh Thole doubled over the head of Winfree in left field. The Herd then executed great fundamentals as Fernando Martinez chopped one to the right side of the infield to move Thole over. Mike Hessman drove a two-strike pitch to deep right field for a sacrifice fly and his team-leading 10th run driven in.
In the bottom of the ninth, Mike Cervenak hit his first home run of the season.
Prior to the game, the Bisons lost a key bat in their line up as Ike Davis got the call to New York. The 23 year-old prospect had his contract selected by the Mets to make his big league debut.


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When Josh Gordon needed $500 to get out of jail Saturday, a familiar name came to his rescue.
WNCN in Raleigh reports court records show Gordon's DWI charge bond was posted by Haydn Patrick "Fats" Thomas—the same man linked to two rental cars driven by former North Carolina hoops star P.J. Hairston when Hairston was stopped by authorities last year.
And Thomas recently resolved legal troubles of his own, pleading guilty in November to charges of possession of a firearm by a felon, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and possession of drug paraphernalia, according to the Associated Press. He was sentenced to 36 months probation.
So who is "Fats" Thomas?
The Herald-Sun in Durham has called him a party promoter and officer manager at a dental practice. When asked how he knew so many UNC athletes, Thomas told the News & Observer in Raleigh: "We throw parties, for Christ's sake."
The News & Observer and Indy Week also reported that Thomas had been the security manager at the same strip club as Crystal Mangum, the dancer whose false rape accusations sparked the Duke lacrosse scandal.
Thomas has a lengthy rap sheet in North Carolina. According to the state's public safety department, his arrests include:
- Charges of carrying a concealed weapon and possessing stolen goods in 2002.
- In late 2005, he was charged with obtaining property or services from slot machines, etc., by false coins or tokens.
- In December 2005, he was charged with use/possession of drug paraphernalia and accessing computers to defraud.
- Charges of possession of a firearm by a felon, drug possession and possession/use of drug paraphernalia in 2012.
But he's never spent time in jail or prison, corrections records show.
His name surfaced again last May, this time in connection to Hairston. First, Hairston was cited for speeding in a 2012 Chevrolet Camaro rented by Thomas and a woman sharing Thomas' address, according to multiple reports. USA Today later reported that the same Camaro — registered in Virginia — had racked up a dozen campus parking tickets in just two months.
In June 2013, Hairston was in an SUV rented in Thomas' name when it was pulled over a Durham police checkpoint. Police found marijuana and a handgun inside, Indy Week reported. The marijuana charge was dismissed after Hairston finished a drug assessment program, per AP.
Hairston wasn't the only UNC athlete who Thomas hung around. WRAL kept a running list of players linked to him via social media or public records, which included Leslie McDonald, John Henson, Dexter Strickland, Harrison Barnes, and Greg Little.
As for Thomas, Durham Court Superior Judge Carl Fox had these words for him back in November, "Quit while you're ahead."


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If you happen to be in the Bay Area, you are invited to join us at Beyt Tikkun's High Holiday services with Rabbi Michael Lerner (and the Tikkun band led by Achi Ben Shalom) in Berkeley, starting on the evening of Wednesday, Sept. 24, and during the days Sept. 25 and 26 (Rosh Hashanah) and/or the evenings of Oct. 3 and all day Oct. 4 (Yom Kippur). Among those participating: spoken word poet Josh Healey, Spiritual Direction teacher and therapist Renna Ulvang, Israel peace activist and Code Pink leader Rae Abileah, and empathic communication trainer and executive director of the Network of Spiritual Progressies Cat Zavis. You do not have to be Jewish to register and attend these spiritually deep celebrations of transformation, which this year will give special attention to the environmental crisis.
For more information, visit www.beyttikkun.org.
To acknowledge our own screw-ups is an important first step. But the High Holidays are not about getting ourselves to feel guilty, but rather engaging in a process of change. If we don't make those changes internally and in our communities and in our society, all the breast-beating and self-criticism become an empty ritual.
In many situations and relationships, you are not the only part of the problem—but for the sake of this process, it is your part that you are to focus on, not the part contributed by your partner, spouse, parents, children, friends, etc. Begin to work on your part during these ten days of repentance/teshuvah!
On these days, our focus is not on what others did to us, but on what we ourselves did to lessen our connection to our highest possible selves and to our highest manifestation of the God-energy of the universe!
Did you show adequate respect for your body?
Did you care for your body this past year? If not, what didn't you do that you should have done?
Clothing, Appearance, and Self-Presentation
Quiet Time or Meditation
Are you taking enough time to nourish your soul?
- Did you care for your soul this past year? If not, what didn't you do that you should have done? In what ways did you care for your soul this past year?
- In what ways did you neglect your soul? Did your soul give you any messages that you ignored? What were they?
- Did you take time to read books that would have expanded your awareness of spiritual life? If not, what do you want to read this next year? Did you give yourself alone time for meditation, for prayer, or for walks in nature?
- Did you take the time to read other books that would have given you pleasure and joy? If not, what do you want to read this next year?
- What courses (evening schools in liberal arts or a new profession, art programs, Hebrew, Jewish studies, studying a new musical instrument, learning about another culture or philosophical tradition) did you take to expand your horizons? What would you like to take this next year?
- What pleasures did you give to yourself this year? Which do you want to expand or initiate this coming year? Did you allow yourself to go to art exhibits, plays, musical concerts, poetry readings, discussion groups, community political action activities, or other events that would have given you pleasure? What do you want to do in this regard in the next year?
- In what ways did you explore your relationship with God or however you wish to name the spiritual dimension of consciousness this past year? In what ways did you ignore that dimension of life? Did you read any books, attend lectures or courses, or dedicate time to exploring the spiritual dimension of your life? Would you be willing to read (or reread) The Left Hand of God, Spirit Matters, The Politics of Meaning, Jewish Renewal, Embracing Israel/Palestine, or other spiritually enlivening books, and make a commitment now to doing so in the course of this coming year?
Are you giving real energy to tikkun olam, to healing and repairing the world?
- Which of our society's political, economic, or social institutions have destructive consequences to the environment, social justice, or our capacity to be loving and compassionate human beings? Have you challenged any of them in the public arena?
- What concrete steps have you taken to be involved? What will you personally do to change the status quo? Will you support the Global Marshall Plan or the Environmental and Social Responsibility Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (both can be read at www.spiritualprogressives.org)? Another option is to urge Israel and the United States to back full membership for Palestine in the UN in a resolution that would also support Israel's right to exist in security within recognized borders as a Jewish state that gives full equality in every respect to the religious, national, and ethnic minorities living there (the same that we ask of Palestinians). If not, what will you actually do, or what campaigns or projects will you support with your money and/or your time?
- If you haven't been involved, what were the reasons you gave yourself? Which of those reasons presupposed a "surplus powerlessness" (a way in which you were actually assuming yourself less able to initiate things or take leadership than is "objectively" true)? In what ways did you buy the message that "they will never listen," or, "I can never get things to happen," or, "I'm not powerful enough to start something so I'll wait for someone else—like President Obama—to do it," or, "Other people are not together enough, or too immoral, or too passive, so there's no point in me trying to mobilize them," or other similar messages?
- If you tried to be involved, and had hassles or disappointments with other people in the process, what were those and what part did you have in making or sustaining them? What did you do to confront the problems directly? Would you be open to working with the Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP), Tikkun, Beyt Tikkun, the One Campaign, the School of the Americas Watch, 350.org, the B'Tselem (Israeli Human Rights Organization), J Street, Jewish Voice for Peace, Pax Christi, Zen Peacemakers, Evangelicals for Social Action, UUA, Baptist Peace Fellowship, or some other national organization doing work with ideals in which you can believe, and which one will you commit to now and actually stick with that commitment?
Did you help build a connection to Judaism and the Jewish world or to whatever spiritual tradition or discipline makes sense to you?
- How much did you seek to deepen your knowledge of Judaism, Jewish history, Jewish texts, or the culture of the Jewish people or of Israel? Or of whatever other religious tradition or spiritual discipline speaks to you? What opportunities were there and what were the reasons you gave yourself for why this year wasn't the right time? Will you make time for this in this New Year?
- Did you allow yourself to take twenty-five hours out of your busy schedule each week to observe Shabbat or some similar weekly spiritual practice in a traditional way? Did you meditate, pray, say the prayer of forgiveness before going to sleep, or some other spiritual practice? How fulfilling or spiritually deep did you allow it to be? If it wasn't, what explanations did you give yourself for why it wasn't working? What could you personally do to make that spiritual practice or some other spiritual practice work for you on a daily or at least a weekly basis?
A Supplement to the High Holiday Prayer Book (not a replacement).
We invite you to use the following along with the traditional confessional prayer, Al Cheyt, recited on Yom Kippur. Bring this and, in addition, bring your own list to Yom Kippur services. Do not just go through the rote of reading the traditional "sins" many of which actually reach to the ways we "miss the mark" in our contemporary reality. If you are not Jewish or not going to any High Holiday service, use this at your home or with your friends any time during these ten days of repentance!
On the Jewish High Holidays, or whenever we are doing repentance work, we take collective responsibility for our own lives and for the activities of the community and society of which we are a part. We affirm our fundamental interdependence and interconnectedness. We have allowed others to be victims of incredible suffering, have turned our backs on others and their well-being, and yet today we acknowledge that this world is co-created by all of us, and so we atone for all of it.
While the struggle to change ourselves and our world may be long and painful, it is our struggle; no one else can do it for us. To the extent that we have failed to do all that we could to make ourselves and our community all that we ought to be, we ask God and each other for forgiveness—and we now commit ourselves to transformation this coming year, as we seek to get back on the path to our highest possible selves.
Chant: Ve-al kulam, Eloha selichot, selach lanu, mechal lanu, kaper lanu.
For all our sins, may the Force that makes forgiveness possible forgive us, pardon us, and make atonement possible.
For the sins we have committed before You and in our communities by being so preoccupied with ourselves that we ignore the larger problems of the world;
And for the sins we have committed by being so directed toward outward realities that we have ignored our spiritual development;
For the sins committed in the name of the American people through our invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and the violence we used to achieve our ends;
And for the sin of not rebuilding what we have destroyed in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan;
For failing to prosecute those in our government who enabled the torture of prisoners around the world and in American detention centers and the denial of habeas corpus and other fundamental human rights;
And for the sin of not demanding that our elected representatives provide affordable health care and prescription drugs for everyone, and for not demanding dramatic changes that are needed to save the planet and lessen the power of big money to shape our democratic process, so that it no longer primarily serves the interests of the corporations and the wealthy;
For the sin of those of us in the West hoarding the world's wealth and not sharing with the 2.5 billion people who live on less than two dollars a day;
And for the sin of supporting forms of globalization that are destructive to nature and to the economic well-being of the powerless;
For the sins of all who became so concerned with "making it" and becoming rich that they pursued banking and investment policies that were destructive not only to their investors but to the entire society;
And for the sins of blaming all Muslims for the extremism of a few and ignoring the extremism and violence emanating from our own society, which continues to use drones to kill people suspected of being involved in supporting terrorism;
For the sin of being cynical about the possibility of building a world based on love;
And for the sin of dulling our outrage at the continuation of poverty, oppression, and violence in this world;
For the sin of not being vigilant stewards of the planet and instead allowing the water resources of the world to be bought up by private companies for private profit;
And for the sin of allowing military spending and tax cuts for the rich to undermine our society's capacity to take care of the poor, the powerless, the young, and the aging, both in the United States and around the world;
For the sin of not doing enough to challenge racist, sexist, and homophobic institutions and practices;
And for the sin of turning our backs on the world's refugees and on the homeless in our own society, allowing them to be demeaned, assaulted, and persecuted;
For the sin of not sharing responsibility for child-rearing;
And for the sin of not taking time to help singles meet each other in a safe and emotionally nurturing way, and instead making them fend for themselves in a marketplace of relationships;
For the sin of being so concerned about our own personal tax benefits that we failed to oppose tax cuts that would bankrupt social services;
And for the sin of not taking the leaflets or not opening the emails of those who tried to inform us of what was going on in the world that required our moral attention;
For the sin of missing opportunities to support in public the political, religious, spiritual, or ethical teachers who actually inspire us and whose teachings would help others;
And for the sin of being passive recipients of negativity or listening and allowing others to spread hurtful stories;
For the sin of being "realistic" when our tradition calls upon us to transform reality;
And for the sin of being too attached to our own picture of how our lives should be—and never taking the risks that could bring us a more fulfilling and meaningful life.
For these sins we ask the Force of Healing and Transformation to give us the strength to forgive ourselves and each other.
For the sins we have committed by not forgiving our parents for the wrongs they committed against us when we were children;
And for the sin of having too little compassion or too little respect for our parents or for our children or our friends when they act in ways that disappoint or hurt us;
For the sin of cooperating with self-destructive behavior in others or in ourselves;
And for the sin of not supporting each other as we attempt to change;
For the sin of being jealous and trying to possess and control those we love;
And for the sin of being judgmental or listening to (or even spreading) negative stories about the personal lives of others;
For the sin of withholding love and support;
And for the sin of doubting our ability to love and get love from others;
For the sin of insisting that everything we do have a payoff;
And for the sin of not allowing ourselves to play;
For the sin of not giving our partners and friends the love and support they need to feel safe and to flourish;
And for the sin of being manipulative or hurting others to protect our own egos.
Chant: Ve-al kulam, Eloha selichot, selach lanu, mechal lanu, kaper lanu.
For the sins we have committed by not publicly supporting the Jewish people and Israel when they are being criticized or treated unfairly; or for not challenging unfair singling out of Israel for criticism by our allies in the anti-war movement;
And for the sins we have committed by not publicly criticizing Israel or the Jewish people when they are acting in opposition to the highest principles of the Jewish tradition;
For the sin of not taking anti-Semitism seriously when it manifests around the world, among our friends, or in our community;
And for the sin of seeing anti-Semitism everywhere, and using the charge of anti-Semitism to silence those who raise legitimate (though painful to hear) criticisms of Israeli policies;
For the sin of allowing the Jewish community to portray itself as the innocent victim and for allowing Holocaust trauma to legitimate oppressive treatment of others;
For the sin of not publicly challenging those Jewish teachers and leaders who support policies that would undermine the capacity of our government to maintain the minimal social and economic supports that have been established for the poor and to protect the environment;
And for the sins of allowing Judaism to be represented by the most wealthy and powerful rather than those most closely aligned with God's injunction to pursue justice and peace and love (not only for Jews, but for all);
For the sin of letting the entire Jewish people take the rap for oppressive policies by the most reactionary and human rights-denying government the State of Israel has ever had;
And for the sin of being so disheartened that we stopped paying attention to the details of what is happening in the West Bank and Gaza—thereby ignoring the massive suffering that a self-described Jewish state imposes on others;
For the sin of knowing in our hearts that what Israel has been doing is morally wrong but refusing to say this in public;
And for the sin of not also saying in public what is positive about Israel and the Jewish people;
For the sin of allowing some (Jews and non-Jews) to blame the entire Jewish people or Judaism for the (inexcusable and murderous) acts of daily violence of Israel's Occupation of the West Bank and its repressive measures against the people of Gaza;
And for the sin of discounting the ethical responsibility of those Jews and non-Jews who belong to institutions or political organizations and political parties that give blanket support to Israeli policies no matter how repressive;
For the sin of blaming the entire Palestinian people for (inexcusable and murderous) acts of violence, kidnapping, murder by a handful of terrorists—and then cutting water, food and access to medical care for a million people, or kidnapping (called "arresting" when done by the occupying police forces and the IDF) Palestinian youth, or jailing without charges and without trials tens of thousands of Palestinians, torturing, and humiliating them;
And for the sins that Israel committed stealing West Bank Palestinian land and access to West Bank water, creating settlements of ultra-nationalists who regularly harass Palestinian children or uproot olive trees and otherwise intensify the evils of occupation, imposing checkpoints for Palestinians and building West Bank roads that are only available for Jewish Israelis, taxing West Bank Palestinians while not allowing them to vote in Israeli elections, and then pretending to be on a higher moral plane than the Palestinian people;
For the sins that were done in the name of the Jewish people by the State of Israel in killing teenagers at the average rate of one every third day for the past twenty years;
And for the sins of turning our heads and "not knowing" when gangs of Israelis roamed the streets of Israel, harassing and beating up random Palestinians in what could only be called a "pogrom"—though we could have known had we been reading the communications from Tikkun or the daily news from the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz;
For the sin of teaching hatred about Palestinians and Muslims, and then claiming that it is only they who teach hatred; And for the sin of insisting that there is no "moral equivalence" between the deaths of innocent Israeli civilians and the deaths of innocent Palestinian civilians;
And for the sins that American Jews have committed by giving blind loyalty to the Israeli far-right lobby and believing that the critics of that lobby are being disloyal or alienated from the Jewish people or from Israel;
For the sin of condemning Palestinian or Muslim extremists as typical, while "understanding" our own and claiming that they are exceptions to our normal generous and kind attitudes;
And for the sin of portraying every Palestinian or Muslim as a hater;
For the sin of insisting that politics has no place in our synagogues, thereby creating a division between the ethical and the spiritual—a division which Judaism came into being to challenge;
And for the sin of giving lip service to tikkun olam, but then never engaging in the demonstrations, conferences, and organizing that are part of the process of transforming our world;
For the sins of tribalism, chauvinism, and thinking our pain is more important than anyone else's pain;
And for the sin of allowing religious and communal institutions, colleges and universities, government and politics, the media, and the entertainment industry to be shaped by those with the most money, rather than those with the most spiritual and ethical sensitivity;
For the sin of not putting our money and our time behind our highest ideals;
And for the sin of not learning the Jewish tradition; not studying Jewish history, literature, and holy texts; and not learning the depth, wisdom, and meaning for our lives that can be found in Jewish spirituality and prayer and on a Jewish path;
For the sin of thinking that our path is the only path to spiritual truth;
And for the sin of allowing conservative or insensitive leaders to speak on behalf of all American Jews;
For the sin of not providing public support and financial backing to the few Jewish leaders, organizations, and publications that do actually speak our values;
And for the sin of not recognizing and celebrating (with awe and wonder) the beauty and grandeur of the universe that surrounds us;
For the sin of not seeing the spirit of God in others;
And for the sin of not recognizing and nurturing the spirit of God within ourselves;
For the sin of not praying, meditating, keeping a twenty-five hour Shabbat, or giving adequate attention to the needs of our soul;
And for the sin of focusing only on our sins and not on our strengths and beauties;
For the sin of not transcending ego so we could see ourselves and each other as we really are: manifestations of God's loving energy on earth.
Chant: Ve'al kulam Elohai Selichot, selach lanu, mechal lanu, kaper lanu.
For all these, Lord of Forgiveness, forgive us, pardon us, grant us atonement.
Repentance is not meant only as an exercise to help us feel better, but also as the beginning of organizing our personal and communal lives to begin the process of changing. To join with others in this sacred work, please join the Network of Spiritual Progressives and Tikkun: spiritualprogressives.org or firstname.lastname@example.com. Composed by Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor, Tikkun magazine, for Yom Kippur 5775.


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Blogs in 'Social Media'
As the guy who dabbles quite a bit in Social Media at HardwareZone, the announcement of Facebook Places in Singapore is supposed to be an exciting one for me. Unfortunately, it's anything but that.
Facebook recently launched a redesigned profile for its users, and some people are having quite a bit of fun with it. I decide to join in said profile hacking fun.
I recently attended a social media meet-up with Standard Chartered Bank and other local bloggers to find out more about Stanchart's new iPhone banking app, Breeze, and I have to admit, it's certainly one that makes me want to switch banks.
What do you do when you find out a colleague has to stay off social media for a week for a story? Do you, a) mess with him, b) laugh at him, c) steal his prized mayorships or d) all of the above?
It's not exactly fresh news, but will the subtle invasion of Facebook (or rather, the need to "status" everything) lead to our downfall?


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Singularity users. If the Stargate or accessories do not start automatically, this is a viewer bug.Click the Stargate icon at the bottom of the kiosk to force the issue. ;)
WARNING! The Stargates are really cool. But the map links are more reliable than script teleports. You may arrive naked! lol


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text: Article | 23 January 2015 | Interview with Ole Kjeldsen, Technology Director, Microsoft. Cloud & Mobility dominate Microsoft's 2015 agenda Interview with Ole Kjeldsen, Technology Director, Microsoft. Cloud first and Mobile first are top of Microsoft's agenda for 2015, according to its Danish Technology Director. All of the products and services that are sent into the market support the Cloud's vast computing power, combined with agile mobile data collection. "The two dominating focus areas for Microsoft in 2015 are Cloud and Mobility," says Ole Kjeldsen, Technology Director, Microsoft Denmark. "We naturally also focus on such trends as Big Data, social computing and Internet of Things, but everything is driven by Cloud and Mobility." Ole Kjeldsen explains that Internet of Things can, for example, provide for interesting analyses that can generate knowledge we did not think possible. "Yet much of Internet of Things is only possible because we can load data from mobile devices and sensors. In the same way, we can only crunch the vast amounts of data from Internet of Things in the Cloud, since the computing power needed will only rarely be available in a traditional data centre. So Cloud and Mobility are the be-all and end-all." Elevator-IoT On the subject of Cloud and Mobility, Ole Kjeldsen describes how Microsoft has helped the elevator conglomerate ThyssenKrupp with a major global Internet of Things installation. ThyssenKrupp have connected sensors to most of the components in their elevators, so that they can register basic functionality such as the number of times a cable is extended, or a button is pressed. This function data is stored in the Cloud using Microsoft Azure Intelligent Systems Service, from where algorithms can be used to generate an analysis of the relevant component's lifetime, and whether the elevator needs servicing. "A core demand for ThyssenKrupp is to optimize their servicing operation. This is partly because service represents their biggest expense and there are huge savings to be made by optimising the processes and partly because elevators which do not work create customer dissatisfaction. Today, they can replace a component before the elevator breaks down. They can automatically order the component in good time, since a notification is transmitted from the system to the component supplier, and the component can be distributed automatically out into the support network well in advance, to avoid waiting for the replacement " says Ole Kjeldsen.or it to be replaced," says Ole Kjeldsen. "We have five to six similar IoT cases ongoing in Denmark within production and supply chain management and we also notice the public sector beginning to show an interest in this area. Analyses of this type would be a natural in the roads and traffic area." cloud, cloud & cloud Like everyone else in the market, Ole Kjeldsen and Microsoft can also see how Cloud is the business area that currently shows the fastest development. "Our customers tell us that it's not a question of whether they will use the Cloud or not, but solely a matter of what they will use the Cloud for, how much they will move up, and how quickly. Today, many only use the Cloud for disaster recovery, yet more and more would like to use it more actively, because the potential savings are enormous. They need a lot of help with this process, to analyse which elements of their infrastructure and application layer should be placed in the Cloud, and also to ensure that all statutory provisions are observed during this process. It also has to be determined whether there is any sensitive data requiring special handling. Assignments like these are set to explode in 2015." Management and IT governance Ole Kjeldsen explains how he can also see the platform handling area increase in scope and importance during 2015. Very few companies base their entire IT environment on just one provider, so they have a wide range of products from many different producers. "There are challenges in terms of, for example, device management and IT governance across the many platforms. It is vital to master this discipline," says Ole Kjeldsen, going on to mention Microsoft Intune, which provides Cloud functions for the administration of PCs and mobile devices. Companies can use Microsoft Intune for the administration of all client computers in the organisation from one and the same cockpit, including Windows, Windows RT, Windows Phone 8, Apple iOS and Android devices. Software packs can be transferred and published, and administration and security policies, as well as hardware and software, can be configured and implemented without a local infrastructure. "You can even handle your application portfolio in the Cloud in the same way as you handle your on-premise application portfolio," says Ole Kjeldsen. Fine tuning and tweaking Ole Kjeldsen concludes by naming two new IT roles that he tips will see a breakthrough in 2015. The first area is within IT security, where a coming new EU regulation, for example, will probably have the consequence that all companies over a certain size must have a person responsible for data privacy. "Understanding data classification and privacy impact, and generally being in control of how data is processed, classified and handled – internally within the company and by subsuppliers – will be really big in the future." "I also think that data analysts will increasingly be in the limelight. It isn't just a matter of being able to analyse the company's own data, but just as much of being able to analyse external data sources and compare them with the company's own data sets, in order to get new knowledge from the correlated data," says Ole Kjeldsen, before concluding:"In the old days, the database administrator played the lead role, since he knew how to fine tune and tweak the systems, to achieve performance optimisation. Today, IT is more about creating value. Value is created on the basis of analysis. This role is relatively new, and therefore undefined. If you can fill this space, it will be a real eldorado for any data analyst." Azure Machine Learning Microsoft recently released a beta version of Azure Machine Learning, which is a portal to create what are called predictive analyses. Azure Machine Learning makes more than 100 statistical models available, allows users to add their own models, and also includes free computing power and storage. The end-result is that companies of every size and in every industry can start to work with their data in a new way. "We can see more and more players in the market that are not only beginning to gather data from their own production, but also collecting transactions from customer and partner dialogues. Naturally in accordance with current legislation," says Ole Kjeldsen. "Some of them may not yet be quite certain what they will use the data for, but they do have an idea that the data will be of value at some point. The hunt for this business opportunity is supported by Azure Machine Learning." Windows 10: Cross-provider consistency "A fitting description of Windows 10 would be cross-provider consistency," says Ole Kjeldsen prior to the launch of Microsoft's coming new operating system. "The majority of our customers implement a range of different servers in our Azure platform. The ambition for Windows 10 is for the user experience to be as consistent as possible across providers." "Within Microsoft's own portfolio of devices, the Windows 10 user experience must also be as consistent as possible. Naturally there are screen difference issues when working from a smartphone and a PC, but we do get closer to a uniform experience." < Back to newsroom Latest news CC: Migrating Mainframe Source Code to Git 23 September 2020 Consultant's Corner: Freelance is freedom 09 September 2020 Consultant's Corner: Robotic Process Automation 25 August 2020 ProData Consult wins DSB tender 01 July 2020


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Officially, none of the Arduino platforms has ever supported add-on RAM (the add-on boards for the MEGA are all from third parties...)
Looks like a good opportunity for a third party vendor to create a board using the Due's chip, but wired up for the hardcore extreme user. Rather than cloning the Due, it'd be an innovative evolution.
should toss in the ethernet jack


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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Frosting, Plus My Irrelevancy
No recipe for today - but nonetheless, I don't see anything wrong with posting some food porn. Who doesn't enjoy gazing at frosting and thinking about swimming in it, slathering it all over the house and all available bodies, or simply just dipping a finger, or an arm, in the poofy, sweet gorgaliciousness? You don't? Well, bear up as the rest of us need some new material. These naughty kittens were a guilt-bake that occurred the night after I made that utterly ridiculous cake, which nearly brought us to our knees. Fearing untold repercussions if I didn't bring something into work - because, that cake wasn't leaving our sight - I made another round of batter and made some Red Velvet cupcakes. So, enjoy.
On other fronts, I've officially moved into irrelevancy this week. I won't snore you with all the gory details, but let's just say this blog entails technical know-how far beyond my scope. As in, about 8 billion miles far, as in win the lottery far, I want to re-live high school far, I love my ass far. I've run across terms I don't get, social networking sites I'm not a part of, blog design platforms whose merits I can't really judge because I'm a clueless dork, html code and other nonsense which seems to be common sense to so many other relevant cool people.
I feel behind-the-times. I feel irrelevant. And I'm kind of taken aback. I was hip once - I cut my teeth on Black Flag and the Clash and Sonic Youth and I adored Gibby Haynes. I bought Sub Pop records before they were Sub Pop, I was a roadie for a summer, I dated a mohawk - I was in-the-loop for crap's sake! And no - we weren't "techy" - in fact, we were anything but - we were flannel and fatigues and combat boots and tangly hair meets baby doll dresses with a goth twist. We were music and anti-almost-anything - not just because, but because we didn't have a whole lot to warrant our support at the time. So we did our own thing, and pulled back from the rest of it. We were terribly misunderstood, of course - this Generation X of mine.
And then I read this article and I felt my Gen was validated. A fringe generation, yes, but no less valid or potent. If there are any fellow X-ers out there, it's a must read - and for those who think we X-ers are just a bunch of nutballs, might be worthwhile too. It's a great retrospective, though I suppose it just reinforces how I was once relevant, and am now just one ping away from driving slow in the left lane.
8 comments:
- NV said...
Boy -- from one GenXer to another -- great article. And, because I am a GenXer, I think it's safe to say that I might as well slather that icing all over my hips and eliminate the middle woman! But because we're all irrelevant anyway, would anyone even notice? :-)
- April 29, 2008 at 8:56 PM
- hungryandfrozen said...
Ohhhh that frosting. It's too late at night for me to cook a pudding but I want something so bad - like a vat of your cupcakes :) I'm a definite few years out of being a Gen-Xer, but don't like the idea of aligning myself with earnest Miley Cyrus fans and kids who grew up with cellphones...interesting article all the same.
For someone so out of touch with technology - and I'm basically going by trial and error myself with most things - your blog looks fab.
Laura :)
- April 30, 2008 at 3:14 AM
- Ann said...
NV - lol, love the idea of just eliminating the middle woman! Brilliant.
Laura - Glad you liked the article, I just loved it. Thanks for the compliment on my techy blog, despite myself! ;)
- April 30, 2008 at 7:32 AM
- Lisa said...
LOL - crap, try being a baby boomer and having everyone call you ma'am and your neice roll her eyeballs back into her head when you ask her how she can text and do homework and carry on a conversation all at the same time.
Anyway, meant to comment earlier on the red velvet cake - it is gorgeous beyond words - thank you thank you thank you for the recipe, esp. the frosting!
- April 30, 2008 at 2:28 PM
- Ann said...
Hi Lisa - loved your comment! Your niece makes me feel like a slacker. So glad you enjoyed the frosting, it really is an addict's dream. ;)
- April 30, 2008 at 3:08 PM
I miss flannel shirts. *sigh* Especially right now because I think I just gained 5 pounds looking over your blog! YUM! You are going on my blogroll now for sure!
I'm glad you Twittered upon me too! Great site!
- April 30, 2008 at 5:09 PM
- Ann said...
Kspin - thanks for stoppin' by. LOL - hope that weight comes off. Sorry 'bout that, girl! ;-)
- April 30, 2008 at 6:32 PM
Great article, I'm an x-er and am passing it on. Will be back for the writing AND the food!
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No matter how much I try and no matter how attractive I find my sexual partner, I hardly last for more than a minute or two max. Sex with me is over before it starts and it leaves me feeling ashamed afterwards.
Is there anything I can do about this early/premature ejaculation? The problem is making it impossible for me to keep a girlfriend because I feel I'm incapable of satisfying a woman sexually. How can I cure this?Any advice for him?